800Mb Conner EIDE without LBA BIOS?

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From: Johnnie Chan
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 1995 00:00

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I have a dx2-66 without LBA on BIOS. I am able however to speicify
more than 1023 cylinders on my BIOS. I also have an EIDE I/O card (no
builtin BIOS though).
What I would like to do is to get myself an 800Mb conner hard disk.
DOS can only support up to 500Meg.
So I was wondering, if I could do the following:

1> Specify the hard disk numbers on my BIOS ie cyl >1023.
2> use DOS fdisk and partition off the first 400Mb for DOS
3> Install WARP HPFS on the next 200Mb (I've heard WARP allows >1023
cylinders)
4> Install Linux on the last 200Mb (I've heard Linux allows >1023).

Any one with useful help? I would rather not have to buy yet another
I/O card.

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From: johnnie@jchan.demon.co.uk (Johnnie Chan)
Subject: 800Mb Conner EIDE without LBA BIOS?
Date: 1995/07/19
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